Matt Jamison
Last year I published an article in which I studied what I referred to as the “Battalion Command Crisis within the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery.” I completed my own battalion command in June 2023 and loved it. The job was the highlight of my career, and my departure was truly bittersweet. To this day, I can honestly say that I would happily do it all over again. After successfully completing what was then known as the Colonel’s Command Assessment Program (CCAP) last year, I deferred competing for brigade command. This year I declined entirely. In this article, I will explain why.
When I decided to make the Army a career, my general vision of what success looked like was twenty years of service and a successful battalion command. As I approached battalion command, I never thought about retiring at its conclusion. My career had been a success by any measure and battalion command was no different. I was a first-time select for Senior Service College and knew that I wanted to get my family back to the Washington, D.C. area and take a specific job that would be available at the Pentagon. I had never been certain that I would enjoy brigade command – the transition to organizational leadership might remove much of what I enjoyed as a direct leader – but I had always taken the next hard job.
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